Does Barack Obama know who the President of France is?

Telegraph Blogs (U.K.) ^ | March 24, 2009 | Toby Harnden

[ExGeeEye]

I’m personally hard pressed to say whether the Constitutional POTUS is Joe Biden or John McCain.

[backhoe]

Oh, it gets worse...

GREAT COMMUNICATOR: “How would he pronounce Cassiopeia?”

Everyone knows that Barack Obama is lost without his teleprompter, but his latest blunder, courtesy of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, via the Corner, suggests that the teleprompter may not be enough unless it includes phonetic spellings. Obama was speaking at a White House roundtable...

and repeatedly saluted Orion Energy Systems, whose CEO, Neal Verfuerth, was present at the event. So Obama referred to "Orion" a number of times. Only problem was, he appeared to be unfamiliar with the word:

All terrific press for Orion, except that Obama kept pronouncing the company's name wrong, calling it OAR-ee-on.

Unbelievable... or not...I know it's a trite observation, and one to which we have been driven on almost a daily basis since the Age of Obama began two short months ago, but can you imagine the hooting and hollering that would have ensued if George Bush had never heard of Orion?

[jedi150]

I’m personally hard pressed to say whether the Constitutional POTUS is Joe Biden or John McCain.

None of the above

God forbid I think it would be NANCY

Biden even looks good in comparison

[aimee5291]

President Obama shocks me...how could he !

[Forward the Light Brigade]

This gaff is but the first of many to come. Hold on to your hats, America and hold your nose. Vote all Democrats out of office!

[Islaminaction]

LOL!! Dumb and naive.

There is only some much Obama that I can take each day.

[gridlock]

I caught President Obama around noon-time for his sit-down with Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, where he called the PM “Secretary Rudd”...

[Schnucki]

LOL!

[Cicero]

I caught President Obama around noon-time for his sit-down with Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, where he called the PM “Secretary Rudd”...

Of the People's Republic of Australia?

[Winstons Julia]

I’m not sure how to freepmail. I’m new and getting used to the site. But I would like to be, how you say, pinged?

This is the perfect time for Sarko to do a full-on Reagan.

Didn’t Ireland lower business taxes to get out of its recession?

If Sarko can become a good conservative leader and even elevate France’s position in the world, I’m all FOR it.

The best way to repay Obama’s b****-slap is to show him how it’s done.

I LOVE that the European media is covering this.

[Chode]

ummmmmmmmmmmmm... it appears not.